Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland.
The band… Read Full Bio ↴Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland.
The band was founded in 1995 as Raven by Jarno Salomaa (guitars, later also keyboards), Tomi Ullgrén (bass, later also guitars) and Toni "Otso" Mäensivu (drums, later also vocals) as a faster, instrumental black metal-isch band following the footsteps of their contemporaries like Strid, Burzum, Darkthrone and Unholy. The trio soon realized that the music they played wasn't as good as they would have wanted, lacking the atmosphere and emotion of the bands that influenced them. They needed to either step up their songwriting game or try something else completely. During the summer of '95 Raven recorded their rehearsals with a simple cassette recorder, capturing all the songs that later became the Alone In The Mist demo, for the first time on tape. After listening to the rehearsal tape and realizing they actually had something in their hands they could stand behind, Raven wanted to record the tracks in a proper studio. It took the band three years to do it. Raven entered Arkki-studio in early '98. They still hadn't tried any vocals until the very last minute, when they decided they wanted to test how the songs would sound with Mäensivu's vocals and were surprised how well they actually fit. The Alone In The Mist demo [1] was not released until 2016, when the band thought it was the proper time to do it. They changed their name in September 1998 to Shape Of Despair. The decision to change the name came down to basically not wanting to be confused with the UK hard rock stalwarts Raven. Obviously, their new moniker fit their new sound better too.
In 2000 they signed a deal with Spikefarm Records and released their debut album Shades of...with Samu Ruotsalainen on drums.
The second album Angels of Distress, released on September 2001, featured Pasi Koskinen on lead vocals. Sami Uusitalo joined up in 2002 to play bass for the third album Illusion's Play. It was released in 2004.
In 2005, the band released a compilation titled Shape of Despair, featuring rare and unreleased material from the group, including tracks from the band's first demo Alone in the Mist and a new song called Sleeping Murder, recorded over a four-day period at Sundicoop Studios in Savonlinna, Finland. After a 5-year lull the band released the EP Written in My Scars and a split EP with Before The Rain.
Their 4th full-length album Monotony Fields was released on June 15, 2015 by Season of Mist.
The band… Read Full Bio ↴Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland.
The band was founded in 1995 as Raven by Jarno Salomaa (guitars, later also keyboards), Tomi Ullgrén (bass, later also guitars) and Toni "Otso" Mäensivu (drums, later also vocals) as a faster, instrumental black metal-isch band following the footsteps of their contemporaries like Strid, Burzum, Darkthrone and Unholy. The trio soon realized that the music they played wasn't as good as they would have wanted, lacking the atmosphere and emotion of the bands that influenced them. They needed to either step up their songwriting game or try something else completely. During the summer of '95 Raven recorded their rehearsals with a simple cassette recorder, capturing all the songs that later became the Alone In The Mist demo, for the first time on tape. After listening to the rehearsal tape and realizing they actually had something in their hands they could stand behind, Raven wanted to record the tracks in a proper studio. It took the band three years to do it. Raven entered Arkki-studio in early '98. They still hadn't tried any vocals until the very last minute, when they decided they wanted to test how the songs would sound with Mäensivu's vocals and were surprised how well they actually fit. The Alone In The Mist demo [1] was not released until 2016, when the band thought it was the proper time to do it. They changed their name in September 1998 to Shape Of Despair. The decision to change the name came down to basically not wanting to be confused with the UK hard rock stalwarts Raven. Obviously, their new moniker fit their new sound better too.
In 2000 they signed a deal with Spikefarm Records and released their debut album Shades of...with Samu Ruotsalainen on drums.
The second album Angels of Distress, released on September 2001, featured Pasi Koskinen on lead vocals. Sami Uusitalo joined up in 2002 to play bass for the third album Illusion's Play. It was released in 2004.
In 2005, the band released a compilation titled Shape of Despair, featuring rare and unreleased material from the group, including tracks from the band's first demo Alone in the Mist and a new song called Sleeping Murder, recorded over a four-day period at Sundicoop Studios in Savonlinna, Finland. After a 5-year lull the band released the EP Written in My Scars and a split EP with Before The Rain.
Their 4th full-length album Monotony Fields was released on June 15, 2015 by Season of Mist.
The Distant Dream of Life
Shape of Despair Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Shape of Despair:
...in th Mist Slow mine feet are, Frozen their veins. Still closing helple…
...to Live for My Death All life will be gone Soon leaving myself... Into the sphere…
01. Angels of Distress Come closer for myself And let your angels fly away. As I…
02. Angels of Distress Come closer for myself And let your angels fly away. As I…
03. Quiet These Paintings Are Quietly these colours will fade But soon they will be as…
04. ...To Live for my Death All life will be gone Soon leaving myself... Into the sphere…
Angels of Distress Come closer for myself And let your angels fly away. As I…
Curse Life I used to feel I used to sense what were Inside of…
Dissolution Close to the edge Of disappearance Faint features Still exis…
Entwined in Misery All these years in absence ...forgiveness does not reveal i…
Fallen I've losted mine strength, I've losted mine sanity. I've see…
Fragile Emptiness Fragile emptiness Crackling whilst I move My hands (penetrat…
Illusion's Play In emotion Carried fragments of hate Astrayed in blur of min…
In The Mist Slow mine feet are, Frozen their veins. Still closing helple…
Monotony Fields Taken down gone my will touch the ground perpetual void bene…
Night's Dew [instrumental]…
Quiet These Paintings Are Quietly these colours will fade But soon they will be as…
Quiet These Paintings Are Outro Quietly these colours will fade But soon they will be as…
Quiet These Paintings Are / Outro Quietly these colours will fade But soon they will be as…
Reaching the Innermost Even though the world Was in our hands And life whispered in…
Return to the Void Let the grey enter Wear its mark Carry this uncertainty Th…
Shadowed Dreams In here, every shadow in the ground passes me by...…
Still Arisen in vain to a life Bleeding inner to suffer with…
Still-Motion Arisen in vain to a life Bleeding inner to suffer with…
Sylvan-Night Sweet bleak bliss of these pale mists pass... And I watch…
Woundheir Wound was the heir, the ruler within fire. Closed my page,…
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@TSPH1992
This song is dam close to perfection. A masterpiece
@Akamaholic
Chills every time those clean vocals come in. Every time.
@kosec666
strong lyrics here:
Approaching form
Approaching a deeper meaning
My fragments lay scattered
Buried deep
Never awaken
Still dreaming of life
Still dreaming of life
@andresr6674
Still dreaming of life
@Uchutanjyo
so happy to see so much love for this track specifically.
@wyrd_official
Listened to this album full through. When this track came on, it hit me harder than anything I've heard in a long time. What a masterpiece.
@MrDrTinka
One of best albums ever ❤️❤️❤️
@rappersoly5545
Approaching form
Approaching a deeper meaning
My fragments lay scattered
Buried deep
Never awaken
Still dreaming of life
Still dreaming of life
@patrycjasawicka99
Przybierając formę
Pojmując głębsza istotę rzeczy
Moje prochy leżą rozsiane
Pogrzebane gleboko
Nigdy nie przebudzone
Ciągle śniące o życiu
Ciągle śniące o życiu...
@Amonlith
I can't describe how amazing this song is for me. I bought the album of their bandcamp page, if you like it too support them. https://shapeofdespair.bandcamp.com/track/the-distant-dream-of-life